Sunday, September 08, 2013

A photo from last week, when the Dodgers were winning. Obviously Hanley's fancy headgear was the cause.

Clayton Kershaw (14-8, 1.89) vs. Homer Bailey (10-10, 3.42).

Where are we with our knee-jerk thinking? The Dodgers have lost three straight for the first time since early June. They're beating up on bad teams but their only two series losses in the second half of the season have been to the Red Sox and Reds. We can't beat playoff-caliber teams? Of the rest of the Dodgers' regular-season opponents, only the Diamondbacks have a winning record — so we won't get to test that theory until the playoffs.

I didn't get a chance to see yesterdays game, but Fridays game felt to me like Don was just biding time. He fielded a very strange line-up and Cappy going out early didn't help, of course. I get the whole resting our top guys and avoiding injuries but aren't we supposed to be chasing down the tomahawk chop crew for home field advantage?